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The noble art of venerie or hunting : wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and kill euery one of them

by: Gascoigne, George, -1577; Purfoot, Thomas, -1615, printer; Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580. La venerie; Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?, dubious author

Publication date: 1611

Topics: Hunting

Publisher: At London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Item Size: 471.1M

Attributed in error to George Turberville ; actually an English translation and adaptation of Jacques Du Fouilloux's La venerie (1573) by George Gascoigne, named as author of the poem on ¿3v-¿4r. Cf. Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.) N113

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Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)

English short title catalogue

Cataloged

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is the second of two items bound into a single volume titled, "The Booke of Falconrie." This volume contains [1]: The booke of falconrie or hauuking -- [2]: The noble art of Venerie or hunting [ESTC no. S118822]

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Addeddate: 2016-01-04 21:29:20

Associated-names: Purfoot, Thomas, -1615, printer; Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580. La venerie; Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?, dubious author